Anti-lynching
Ida B. Wells
1862 – 1931
Born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Investigative journalist whose forensic anti-lynching reporting in the 1890s, including the pamphlets Southern Horrors and The Red Record, exposed the lynching regime as economic terror rather than a response to crime. Co-founded the NAACP in 1909. Posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2020.
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